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but the distal portion, more or less extensively, brownish white or 

 pale rusty brown, usually tipped with black, the three lateral pairs 

 (including rudimentary outer rectrices) mostly white, more or less 

 strongly tinged terminally with brownish; nasal tufts dusky, some- 

 times finely streaked with paler; extreme anterior portion of fore- 

 head usually white, grayish white, or pale grayish, a broad white 

 stripe extending thence across lores and beneath orbital and auricular 

 regions to side of neck; malar region black or blue-black, forming a 

 stripe which extends posteriorly across sides of neck, where usually 

 confluent with the black neck area; under parts white, the sides and 

 flanks broadly barred with black, the bars less regular and sometimes 

 broken into spots or streaks on anterior portion of sides; bill slate 

 color, the mandible usually paler, sometimes light bluish gray or 

 horn gray, especially toward base; iris reddish brown or chestnut; 

 legs and feet dusky grayish (slate color or slate-gray in life) ; length 

 (skms), 205-248 (220); wmg, 125-134 (129.5); tail, 74-85 (77.9); 

 culmen, 31-35 (33); tarsus, 21.5-24 (22.9); outer anterior toe, 

 11.5-13.5 (12.6).° 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any yellow 

 on crown, the entire pileum being uniform glossy blue-black ; length 

 (skms), 207-234 (221); wing, 123-133.5 (126.8); tail, 73.5-84.5 

 (78.8); culmen, 28.5-34.5 (30.7); tarsus, 21-23 (22); outer anterior 

 toe, 11-13 (12.2).'' 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but yellow crown-patch 

 smaller, black of upper parts duller, white of under parts duller and 



"Thirty-nine specimens. 



6 Thirty-four specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from Newfoundland 



Ten adult males from New Brunswick (3), Nova Scotia (1), 



Maine (5), and New York(l) 



Ten adult males from Minnesota to Mackenzie 



One adult male from Alaska 



Six adult males from Montana (4) and Idaho (2) 



Ten adult males from California (4), western Nevada (2), 



Oregon (2), and Britisli Columbia (2) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Newfoimdland 



Ten adult females from New Bnmswick (1), Maine (5), and 



New York (4) 



Ten adult females from Minnesota to Mackenzie 



Two adult females from Montana (1) and Idaho (1) 



Ten adult females from California (2), western Nevada (1), 



Oregon (1), Washington (1), and British Columbia (5) 



One adult female from Ungava 



12.5 



12.4 

 13 

 13 

 12.7 



12.5 



12.3 

 12.2 

 12 



11.9 

 12.5 



